Every now and then , animal - themed hashtags on Twitter start trending , and – accept they ’re not about extinctions or deadly fires for once – they make full our cockamamie centre with disproportionate amounts of joy . Whether they are narrative ofescaped zoo animalsor they ’re justpeople rating dogs , they brighten up our 24-hour interval .
A new hashtag come along to be hanging about for a while , at least on American Twitter.#AnimalHallOfShameNomineesis an eclectic , off-the-wall mixture of creatures , both real and fake , physically there or simply enliven , that have warranted entry into a brand - raw zoological garden of mischief - Divine .
Yes , it ’s no#DoesItFart , nor is it anywhere close to achieving the brilliant height of thebattlebetween London ’s Science Museum and the Natural History Museum , but it ’s a silly , aww - inducing distraction from two lunatic show off the sizes of their atomic buttons .
Here ’s a selection of the silliest entries :
This corgi does n’t seem to be doing anything specially shameful here .
The hashtag appears to have originated on the timeline ofAdrienne Watson , a TV and radio presence from New York City who also at times see anapp / Twitter feedspecifically designed to bring forth socially likeable hashtags .
It ’s not a bad commixture , but we ’d argue that , at present tense , the list is lacking in some clearly shameful entering . RememberInky , that octopus in the New Zealand marine museum that managed to escape its captors and slip off into the Pacific Ocean ? This was a heartwarming story of derring - do until you see that ink-black left his tank - first mate , another octopus , behind . What a bastard .
Then there was that escapedGuatemalan scorpion . Hiding in someone ’s bag for some time , it decide to jump out during the heart of a push train journey and scare the bejeezus out of everyone . disgrace on you , scorpion . Shame on you .
Every individual animal that disturb orpartly damagedthe Large Hadron Collider in spades deserves to be nominated . From the weasel that chewed through some wiring and met a smoky demise to the fowl that dropped part of a baguette onto a compensating electrical capacity , they ’re all being just plain mean .
Oh , and do n’t forget this underhand thief .
